On Saturday 25 November 2006 12:11, Peter Vollebregt wrote: > Ian schreef: > > On Friday 24 November 2006 20:21, Peter Vollebregt wrote: > >> Ian schreef: > >>> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 22:45, Peter Vollebregt wrote: > >>>>> Sir Robin > >>>>> > >>>>> On 20/11/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>>> On Sunday 19 November 2006 21:29, Miark wrote: > >>>>>>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:41:58 +0000, Ian wrote: > >>>>>>>> Before upgrading to 2007, I could copy files between > >>>>>>>> partitions easily. Now, if the folder I am copying is > >>>>>>>> uppercase, the files within don't get copied and give a "can't > >>>>>>>> write to" error. Does anyone know what has changed, and what > >>>>>>>> do I need to do to get back to how it used to work? I have > >>>>>>>> noticed that the folder will be lower case when copied , > >>>>>>>> regardless of case of the original. -- > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Are you dealing with a FAT or NTFS filesystem? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> It's a FAT32 partition. The error only happens with nested > >>>>>> directories. If I get the error, I enter the remote folder and can > >>>>>> copy the files to it. > >>>>>> The fault appears to be linked to the case of the folder . Hope that > >>>>>> makes > >>>>>> sense. > >>>> > >>>> Robin Turner schreef: > >>>>> I don't have an answer but a related problem that might shed some > >>>>> light: when I copied a directory tree from /home to /mnt/win, all > >>>>> file names were converted to uppercase. Again, this is FAT32, not > >>>>> NTFS. > >>>> > >>>> What are the settings for this partition in /etc/fstab? > >>>> > >>>> What you can do is t try to add the 'shortname=mixed' option to the > >>>> mount options because this enables linux to use lower- and uppercase. > >>>> As in: > >>>> /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat umask=0,utf8=true,noatime,shortname=mixed 0 > >>>> 0 > >>>> > >>>> (Based on history i adopted the SuSE mountpoint /windows/C instead of > >>>> /mnt/......) > >>> > >>> Sorry, I appear to have a drive going pear shaped (hdb), so I'm > >>> transferring files to dvd at present. > >>> The behaviour was when copying from /home to /win_c2 .Both are on the > >>> hdb drive. > >>> FSTAB = > >>> > >>> > >>> /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_c2 vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,exec 0 0 > >>> /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,exec 0 0 > >> > >> Question is how did you copy. Although i like konqueror very much i had > >> a bad experience with copying and errors like you describe. That is how > >> i found out the shortname=mixed option. > >> > >> Try to copy via 'cp' or use 'mc' (midnight commander) if you want to use > >> a graphical method that is different than konqueror. > >> > >> You can also change fstab and change the mount options (and remount). > >> Maybe also the utf8 sequence makes it go wrong. I have had trouble > >> elsewhere with character conversions. > > > > Tried it via mc which completed the copy but gave chmod errors. also > > tried Krusader which copied as well but gave errors. > > I just downloaded the updates (the dbus libs) and the problem has > > vanished....... > > > > >From the update notice: D-Bus is a system for sending messages between > > > > applications. It is used both for the systemwide message bus service, and > > as a per-user-login-session messaging facility. > > Could this have been the cause? > > From a black-box perspective: provbably, because by changing this (and > nothing else?) it suddenly works. And DBUS is involved in recognizing > hardware and mounting, so it touches your problem. But i have a ot to > learn about those things. > > Good anyway. Thanks very much, Peter, I'll still try out the fstab amendments to see how they do. I'm going to recheck the drive I thought was going down as well, the problems appeared when I was transferring files to it.
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